Book Manuscripts
Traders, Speculators, and Captains of Industry: How Capitalist Legitimacy Shaped Foreign Investment Policy in India. Harvard University Press. 2025. Abstract available here.
Constructing Economic Nationalisms in Post-War Brazil and India. Cambridge University Press. 2025. Abstract.
Digital Capitalism and the Future of the Global Economy. Manuscript in preparation. Extended abstract available here.
Articles and chapters
“TWAIL and the Political Economy of Global Public Health” (with Aziza Ahmed). Forthcoming in Vasuki Nesiah and Anthony Anghie (Eds) The Handbook of Third World Approaches to International Law, Edward Elgar.
“Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health: Undermining Public Health, Facilitating Reproductive Coercion ” (with Aziza Ahmed, Dabney Evans, Benjamin Mason Meier, Aparna Nair and Cecelia Tomori) Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics Vol. 51, Issue 3, pp. 485-489 (Fall 2023). Available here.
“Labor Studies: Who and Where? A Global Perspective on the Future of Work(ers)” (with Ayan Meer). Labor Studies Journal, Vol. 48, Issue 3, pp. 276-286 (September 2023).
“Motivations for Watching Videos on Mobile Phones While Driving in Parking Lots and While Waiting at Intersections in the United States” (with Jingkang Gao and Jinhua Zhao). Transportation Research Part F: Psychology and Behavior, Vol. 92 (January 2023), pp. 155-175.
“The Public/Private Divide in Public Health: the COVID-19 Response” (with Aziza Ahmed). Fordham Law Review. Vol 90, pp. 2541-2558 (April 2022).
“Race, Risk and Personal Responsibility: The Racialized Response to COVID-19” (with Aziza Ahmed). Columbia Law Review, Vol. 121, pp. 47-70 (April 1, 2021). Available here.
Governing through Markets: Multinational Firms in the Indian Bazaar (with Amy Cohen). Available here.
“Rights as Logistics: Notes on the Right to Food and Food Retail Liberalization in India,” (with Amy Cohen) in Katherine Young (Ed.) The Future of Economic and Social Rights (Oxford University Press, 2019).
“The Global Rise and Regulation of Platform Firms and Markets,” in Alvaro Santos, Chantal Thomas and David Trubek (Eds.) Globalization Reimagined: A Progressive Agenda for World Trade and Investment Law (Anthem Press, 2019).
“The Role of Law in Global Value Chains: A Manifesto”. London Review of International Law, Vol. 4, Issue 1, March 2016 (co-authored with fellow members of the Harvard Law School Institute for Global Law and Policy (IGLP) Law and Global Production Working Group). Article is freely available via open access license here.
“Influence of South African Legislation on India’s Mines and Minerals Bill: Promise and Perils,” with Charles Maddox and Jonathan Burton-MacLeod.Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XLVII, No. 40, October 6, 2012. Article is available here.
“Promoting Caribbean Science and Technology Intensive Development through Brain Circulation: The Case of Biotechnology in Jamaica.” Canadian Foreign Policy Journal, Vol. 17 (2), June 2011. Article is available here.
“Gender, Development and the Global Economic Crisis,” in Ashwini Deshpande and Keith Nurse (eds) The Global Economic Crisis and the Developing World, 2012, Routledge.
“In Search of the Diaspora Effect: Lessons from the Asian ‘Brain Gain’ for Caribbean ‘Brain Drain’” in Elizabeth Hope Thomas (ed) Freedom and Constraint in Caribbean Migration and Diaspora, 2009, Ian Randle Publishers.
Other Publications
“Can Historical Sociology Save the World?” Contribution to forum in Trajectories: Newsletter of the ASA Comparative and Historical Sociology Section. Vol. 27, No. 1, Fall 2015.
“The Potential Role of the Caribbean Diaspora in Science, Technology and Industrial Policy” in World Sustainable Development Outlook 2010, pp. 123-131.
“Gender and the Economic Partnership Agreement: An Analysis of the Potential Gender Effects of the CARIFORUM-EU EPA” (with Judith Wedderburn) in Caribbean Development Report: Volume 2, 2009, United Nations Economic Commission on Latin American and the Caribbean.